{"id":1460,"date":"1997-05-08T12:16:00","date_gmt":"1997-05-08T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2023-01-31T22:45:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:45:07","slug":"academic-team-at-umes-does-well-in-honda-all-star-competition-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/academic-team-at-umes-does-well-in-honda-all-star-competition-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic team at UMES does well in Honda All-Star competition in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"631\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/01\/1996-97-Varsity-1024x631.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/01\/1996-97-Varsity-1024x631.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/01\/1996-97-Varsity-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/01\/1996-97-Varsity-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/01\/1996-97-Varsity.jpg 1202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The 1996-97 University of Maryland Eastern Shore Honda Campus All-Star Challenge Team (Assistant coach Matthew Whittaker, William Mapp III, John Clark, Elden Hawkes Jr., Jaracus Copes, team captain Andre DeShields, and head coach Dr. Jackie Thomas)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Five University of Maryland Eastern Shore students represented their campus at the national 1997 Honda Campus All-Star Challenge, placing among the top 16 teams out of 64 schools competing last month in Orlando, Fla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four of the team members are first-time players, and they all shatter the \u201cnegative research that is produced about our young black males,\u201d said team coach Dr. Jackie Thomas, chairman of the UMES Department of English and Languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team members whom Dr. Thomas calls \u201cThe Fab Five\u201d include freshman Jaracus Copes of Pocomoke City, freshman Elden Hawkes Jr. of Baltimore, seniors John Clark of Philadelphia, sophomore William Mapp III of Painter, and sophomore Andre DeShields of Baltimore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DeShields was the team captain and placed third nationally as an individual out of 320 participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His efforts earned UMES $1,000 and a bronze trophy. The team \u2013 for making it to the playoffs \u2013 received a $5,000 check as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the best investment we ever made in these young men,\u201d said UMES President Dolores R. Spikes during the 44<sup>th<\/sup> annual Honors Convocation, held on campus last Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said the money would go back to the All-Star Team\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The competition tests student knowledge and quick recall in an academic challenge bowl competition between Historically Black Colleges and Universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Subjects ranged from science and history to literature and music plus current events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the best any UMES team has ever performed, losing in the national playoffs against Oakwood College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assisting Dr. Thomas as the assistant coach was Matthew Whittaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five University of Maryland Eastern Shore students represented their campus at the national 1997 Honda Campus All-Star Challenge, placing among the top 16 teams out of 64 schools competing last month in Orlando, Fla. Four of the team members are first-time players, and they all shatter the \u201cnegative research that is produced about our young&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/academic-team-at-umes-does-well-in-honda-all-star-competition-in-florida\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">Academic team at UMES does well in Honda All-Star competition in Florida<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1559,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}